Bolivia | El Alto (45 images)
Another day dawns in the urban sprawl of El Alto, one of the poorest cities in Bolivia, and 4,100 metres above sea level. The cold air and exhaust fumes mingle with the smell of food sold by street vendors gently rousing the city's 700,000 inhabitants out of sleep. The city of El Alto, outside Bolivia's capital La Paz, is home to some one million people who live at oppressively high altitudes. And many of them no longer have reliable access to water. Because of melting glaciers in the Andes...
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Early morning commuters on their way to work in...
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A young boy lying in the middle of the street...
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El Alto - Bolivia's poorest, and most complex...
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A young Aymaran girl puts on warm clothing...
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Silouette of a young boy on his way to school...
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The Cusi family of nine children in their home...
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A young Aymaran girl coking lunch for her...
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Lydia, age 41, selling bread to shop owners and...
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View of Alto Lima from Alaly, a center that...
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Malnourished Quechuan chilren asleep on the...
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Malnourished Quechuan chilren asleep on the...
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Aymara families at a life skills festival at...
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An Aymaran man rests at home after working in...
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View a man walking in the rain through the bus...
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Virgina and her two kids, waking in the early...
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An ill Quechuan girl with a high fever at a...
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Virgina, 32, watches over her next door...
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View of the sparse streets in El Alto. A couple...
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View of LA Paz, Bolivia from El Alto, where a...
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A street scene through a bus window in El Alto...
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A man walks up the steep hill with a backdrop...
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children look through the window into the...
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